Analysis of Agile Testing Attributes for Faster Time to Market: Context of Manufacturing Sector Related IT Projects

Abstract Agile methodologies are helpful to develop and implement systems to meet the market demands in a faster way, by helping various organizations to evaluate projects.Agile testing strategy is one of the methodologies that is suitable for implementation of IT projects. This paper focuses on IT projects related to manufacturing sector by deriving the significance of various agile project testing attributes across every phase of information systems development life cycle (SDLC) for faster time to market the products. The attributes include prioritization of features according to customer requirement, early customer involvement, incremental and iterative sprints, flexible development environment with less documentation and complexity management. The results highlight the varying significance of these attributes and identifying the key attributes in each project phase; thereby helping software professionals and project managers by providing a handy framework for focusing on phase-wise core attributes that might be essential for tacklingrelated project issues and fullfilling the managerial priorities.